Sometime this weekend (July 3-5) I am planning to repository-copy
the soft-updates sources from their current location in
"src/contrib/sys/softupdates" to "src/sys/contrib/softupdates". All
of you using soft-updates will need to adjust your symbolic links in
"src/sys/ufs/ffs" after this change has taken effect.
The reasons for the move have been discussed before. Briefly, we want
to move all of the kernel code to "src/sys" so that the sys tree will
be more self-contained. Kirk McKusick has agreed to this change --
in fact he favors it. I'm going to do this in both the -current and
RELENG_3 branches.
Here is the 1-question FAQ:
Q. These symbolic links are a pain. Why don't you just edit
"src/sys/conf/files" appropriately?
A. The license terms for soft-updates do not permit that. See the
FreeBSD mailing list archives (the FreeBSD-current list, probably) for
more details.
John
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